50+ Successful Wharton Business School Essays: Successful Application Essays - Gain Entry to the World's Top Business Schools - Softcover

Lewis, Mr Bredesen R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 061560658X ISBN 13: 9780615606583

Publisher: Lewis, 2012

Synopsis

Gain access to top MBA programs like Wharton, Harvard, and Stanford. See successful MBA application essays that gained access to Wharton. Learn to refine your personal message and powerfully put across your story for business school Admissions Committees. Applying to business school is a long, arduous and at times frustrating process. It is difficult to control where you were born and have lived, what undergraduate school you attended, the GPA you got, and the job you have done for half of a decade. What is exceptional about business school is that the lessons you have learned and your personal “story” matter tremendously. What differentiates you from all of the other applicants is your ability to convincingly paint this portrait. You must be able to convey the core of who you are, your specific experiences and the insights you have had. Top business schools such as Wharton, Harvard and Stanford are looking for a diverse student body that represents the society and world we live in. This means leaders in fields from industry, to start-ups, to nonprofits. As anyone who is deeply involved in the business school application process knows, there is a large business that has sprung up around getting you into a top school. That some applicants pay thousands of dollars while others may not be able to can distort the essence of an application in search of a perceived ideal that no longer exists. 50+ Successful Wharton Business School Essays is designed to provide examples of successful essays that demonstrate the diversity of experiences people have had and portray the commonalities in self-reflection and personal growth that admissions committees are looking for.

About this title

About the Author:

Bredesen (Brett) Lewis was born and raised in New York City. He pursued his undergraduate studies at McGill University. Following McGill, Brett completed his MSc in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics (LSE).

After graduating from the LSE, Brett pursued his interest in strategy and private equity at Bain & Company. At Bain, Brett worked extensively on private equity due diligences, post-acquisition turnarounds, and corporate strategy.

After two years at Bain, Brett sought to devote more time to the social sector, a lifelong passion, and took a leave of absence to move to San Francisco and work for The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm. After Bridgespan, Brett returned to Bain as a Senior Associate Consultant.

Brett is pursuing a joint Wharton-Lauder MBA and MA in the class of 2013. He speaks French, German and Portuguese and enjoys venture capital investing and entrepreneurship, having interned at Monashees Capital, a Brazilian venture capital fund.

All feedback, questions and comments are welcome at bredesenlewis@gmail.com and please follow on Twitter @bredesen.

Review:

This book has been extremely helpful in seeing how people with similar backgrounds packaged their stories into a few essays for the adcoms. I got the book for my Wharton application but found it useful for all of the schools I'm applying to (there are similar questions). The introductions to each section give practical tips that helped me a lot.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lewis
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 061560658X
• ISBN 13: 9780615606583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150